Short Smolder Poems

Licking flames 
Rage...
Heat penetrates,

Ashes smolder...
Purified stone
Emerges....

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Raven on my shoulder, emitting faint smolder,
swirling, formed a vision with self-like precision....

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Fire 
Tinders smolder 
Reignited by small breeze 
Orange flames shoot high into night sky 
Lovely...

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Lips curve
intimate smile,
melodic laughter soon
fills the room and my heart with warmth.
Smolder...

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Emotions smolder
Fires burn down to cold coals
Silver shiny glass
Makes for hard brittle mirrors
Fragility breaks elbows...

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3 black churches 
turned into smolder
a flint toothed ogre 
munches a wooden cross
in the shadows
of his black soot mind...

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Smile at a scolder, pat a heart on the shoulder, another day's boulder to molder, set it to smolder, Here we are, just another day older....

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first love never dies
its flames rage loose in the wind
ashes smolder still
as fire rampages untamed
scorching fragile hearts blue-black...

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my stepdaughter sings
                                   embers of bonfire smolder
                                        evening gathering...

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Choice
By: Tom Wright
2000

The choice,
as revealed unto me;
To be afire for God,
on earth,
or smolder for Satan,
In Hell.
...

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Wake the embers that smolder inside
Up above the coldness of my doubt
My burning desire will serve as guide 
Heart aflame with passion ends loves drought...

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October
Mowing over
Buy blower
Flame thrower
Leaves smolder
Smoky odor
Feeling bolder
Getting older

written on a gloomy, rainy
day, October 25, 2021...

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her skin on fire
    cold to the touch
  golden locks of hair
    tumble everywhere

  smooth as silk
    her alabaster shoulders
  men's hearts leap ~
    as love's embers smolder...

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Hard Head Like Big Boulder

Trump had hard head like big boulder;
Was ostentatious as he became older;
We could not resist;
Scratched from list;
He set fires that soon would smolder.

Jim Horn...

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When canoers grow old, do they become canolders
Now that's downright silly, my brain does smolder
But let's not panic
Forget these silly antics
We must always maintain our adult composure...

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I love when it’s colder;
put on two pork shoulders,
the size of small boulders,
to smoke and to smolder.
(three if I’d been bolder)
It is a true soldier,
but likely won’t hold her.
...

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Pink lace and satin
 cool sheets merge
  with perfumed breeze

A tigress writhes on them
  restless, eager to please

Ruby lips fairly smolder
  her curves all aligned
Undo the strap from her shoulder
  Tell her, 'You're mine'...

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Love without hope

Identifying true hopeless love in the eyes of the beholder
as she winks in return my heart melts in smolder
Hope instilled once again in my hopeless soul
Vanishing as she drifts away another lonely dark hole 

3/24/16...

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Olden knowledge should smolder
As smoke rising from an ember -
Universal but not common -
Peculiar but not forgotten.
Tell me of those days of yore -
Of circumstances transpired -
So I can repeat on my lips
That which slumbers in silence....

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What is given?
What is taken away?

What is filled?
What is empty?

What is alive?
What is dead?

What is spoken?
What is said?

What is out there?
What it is in my head?

What I know
What I can learn

What will smolder
What will burn...

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Shakespeare and me
   just didn't agree
Neither did reading
   'great poetry'

The classics I spurned
   and when they were finished
     did happily burn

Now that I'm older
   their words still smolder
They've lit quite a fire
   deep inside me...

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Stuck between a rock 
And a few boulders 
Who say’s life gets better
Or easier as we get older?
Life can be great
But it can also smolder.
You Can do it alone
Although it’s better with a shoulder.
Life can be good and rough.
That’s up to the beholder...

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"A burst of ice."
whispers Winter 

"Your not being nice!"
answers Spring 

"Your frozen outburst;
Your chill, will not change a thing."

"I will dance. I will sing.
It is inevitable.
A symphony of color I will bring."

"So walk away. 
Do not smolder.
Soon your reign will be over."...

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Let me know your smells
taste of them well,
hold your sweat
filling 
mind.

Limbs growing heavy
as hot flames flick
flesh ready
to meet
flesh.

And then, to smolder
resting in awe
in the sweat
of weight
heavy.

Intoxicating
eclipse of joy
blends fire
melting
ice....

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I've felt the pain of an orphaned child,
The wounds of a fallen soldier.
Although on my skin you'll see no marks,
Underneath, I still smolder.

For pain is not a scratch;
Not a bruise, or a scrape, or a bump.
Pain is the fire that burns inside
When you try but just can't give up....

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